Entrepreneurship

280: The Story of Maui Nui Venison – Wild, Stress-Free Meat with Founder and CEO Jake Muise

Jacob Muise is the Founder and CEO of Maui Nui Venison. Their venison comes from Axis deer, a non-native species to Hawaiʻi. Numerous and free-roaming, these deer are truly wild until the moment they humanely harvest them using 100% stress-free methods.

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277: Founding the Largest Farmland REIT with Paul Pittman, Founder of Farmland Partners

Paul Pittman is the founder and executive chairman of Farmland Partners, a publicly traded real estate investment trust (REIT) that purchases, leases, and manages high-quality farmland throughout North America.

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274: Bridging Farm Data Through API with Bailey Stockade, CEO and Co-Founder of Leaf

Bailey Stockdale is the founder & CEO of Leaf, food and agriculture’s data infrastructure company. Bailey has worked with food and agriculture technology since 2014 as a software developer, entrepreneur, and EIR at SP Ventures’ AgTech fund. Bailey is passionate about empowering developers that are solving farming, health, and sustainability challenges through food and agriculture technology.

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273: Autonomy and Farming-as-a-Service with Craig Rupp, CEO and Founder of Sabanto

Craig Rupp is the CEO and Founder of Sabanto, a Farming-as-a-Service company that provides total turn-key agriculture services using our supervised autonomous equipment platform.

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271: A Fast Casual Restaurant with a Transparent, Regenerative Supply Chain with Grant Jones, Co-Founder of Mt. Joy

Grant Jones is the Co-Founder and Chief Agricultural Officer at Mt. Joy, a fast casual restaurant on a mission to accelerate global adoption of regenerative agricultural practices.

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265: Scaling an AgTech SaaS Platform with Aaron Hutchinson, President and Co-Founder of CropTrak

Aaron Hutchinson is the President and Co-Founder of CropTrak. CropTrak brings decades of experience as the leading cloud technology solution to document, share, and analyze an entire supply chain in real-time from source through production.

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263: Commerce for Regional Food Systems with Cole Jones, CEO and Founder of Local Line

Cole Jones is the CEO and Founder of Local Line. Local Line helps farmers, food hubs, and farmers’ markets access new customers and digitize their businesses. Their e-commerce, CRM, inventory and logistics modules enable food producers of all kinds to control their own brand and grow their business on their terms.

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262: AgTech Software Solutions for Farm Accounting with Ian Harley, CEO and Co-Founder of Traction Ag

Ian Harley is CEO and co-founder of Traction Ag, Inc, a cloud-based farm accounting and management software company focused on helping farmers become more profitable and efficient. Ian has more than 25 years of experience in sales and management of AgTech companies, delivering accounting, operations and agronomy software. Prior to Traction Ag, Ian held roles at Granular, Trimble and Farm Works Software.

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261: Established AgTech Investment, Scale, and Distribution with Guillermo Valenzuela, VP of Sales and Marketing at WiseConn

Guillermo Valenzuela is the VP of Sales and Marketing at WiseConn, an agtech company that has developed a technology to measure and control water and other fluids in such diverse areas such as agriculture, mining and hydrology.

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259: AgTech in 2023 Deep Dive with Verdant Robotics Founders Gabe Sibley and Curtis Garner

Founders Gabe Sibley and Curtis Garner are the CEO and COO, respectively, of Verdant Robotics. After coming on the show last year, Gabe and Curtis join this week to give an update on Verdant, including raising their Series A, progress on commercialization, and dealing with a changing economic landscape.

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